Jeju Air Flight 2216 crash (2024)

The Jeju Air crash at Muan is the gear-up landing of the airline's Boeing that ended against a concrete berm beyond the end of the runway. On the morning of December 29, 2024, the Boeing 737-800 operating Jeju Air flight 2216 was inbound from Bangkok with 181 people aboard. On approach to Muan it reported a bird strike, went around and turned back. It landed on the runway in the opposite direction, gear and flaps up. It slid past the runway end and slammed at high speed into the concrete-cored berm holding the localizer antenna, about 250 meters beyond the end. Two crew members survived; 179 people died, the deadliest accident on South Korean soil. Investigators found Baikal teal remains in both engines. In July 2025, provisional findings from the investigation board said the crew had shut down the left engine, the less damaged one, while the right was the worse hit. Families rejected the findings and their public briefing was canceled. The berm is the other half of the case. Experts judged the obstacle too rigid and too close to the runway, and say frangible supports would have let the aircraft slide on. For the market, the accident shifts part of the burden from the airline toward the operator and the State that designed the airfield. Jeju Air's program was led by a group of five Korean insurers and about 99% reinsured abroad. According to the airline, it carried a liability limit of $1 billion per occurrence and a hull value of about $36.5 million. The flight was international, so Montreal governs the passengers. Insurers' recovery against the airport will depend on the official conclusion about the berm.